The new private urban governance: Vestiges, ventures and visibility

RK Lippert, D Mackinnon, S Treffers - Urban Studies, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Despite the growth, prevalence and influence of private urban governance, scholarship that
explores the intimate workings of these manifold and mutating forms remains limited. While …

[HTML][HTML] From tenants to subscribers: digital experiments in residential rent extraction

T White - Digital Geography and Society, 2024 - Elsevier
Rent relations from landed property are increasingly being leveraged for experimentation
with new forms of value capture via digital technologies. Inspired by platform corporations …

Algorithmic tenancies and the ordinal tenant: digital risk-profiling in England's private rented sector

A Wallace, D Beer, R Burrows, A Ciocănel… - Housing …, 2025 - Taylor & Francis
This paper examines digital tenant risk-profiling tools in England's Private Rented Sector
(PRS) and their influence on housing access and fairness. Based on qualitative data from 50 …

Sharing space, time, and technology: the lived experience of smart home technologies in cohousing

A Pirinen, N Ehrenberg, R Mäkinen - Housing Studies, 2025 - Taylor & Francis
As smart home technologies become pervasive, more knowledge is needed on their impact
on everyday living. New urban cohousing has been studied avidly but there is less research …

On and beyond gentrifiers: middling transnationals, rental agents, and the housing search

Y Zhao - Housing Studies, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Drawing inspiration from autoethnographic accounts of gentrification, this paper examines
the privileges and disadvantages of middling transnationals in the private rented sector to …

[HTML][HTML] Plotting cryptoeconomic imaginaries and counterplotting the network state

JL Crandall - Progress in Economic Geography, 2025 - Elsevier
In this paper I critically conceptualize and analyze what I call “cryptoeconomic imaginaries”
in economic geography via Sylvia Wynter's concept of “plotting” as praxis. I define …